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An Attempt to Reconstruct Comenius’s Concept of Usus

Thursday 30 April 2026, 3 p. m., Czech Academy of SciencesInstitute of Philosophy, Jilská 1, Prague 1 (meeting room) Prof. Dr. Shinichi Sohma (Bukkyo...

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Manuscript Practices and the Making of Exile Communities in the Early Modern Period

International Conference,    14–16  April 2026, Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Department of Comenius Studies and...

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10. 5. 2023, 16.30, zasedací místnost FLÚ (1. patro), Jilská 1, Praha 1

přednáška,

Dr. Aira Võsa (Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, The Estonian Academy of Sciences)

Přednáška se koná v rámci bilaterálního mobilitního projektu.

Oddělení pro komeniologii a intelektuální dějiny raného novověku, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.

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Anotation

In the early modern period, Livonia was hit by a series of religious crises or depressions, accompanied by political and ecclesiastical changes. Religious crises in this context can be interpreted as the transformation of a clerically homogeneous and stable situation into an unstable one, deviations from the normative practices of piety, or the pluralism that replaced the monopolistic status of one denomination. From these presuppositions grew the theological-polemical literature that is the focus of the planned presentation. In particular, it will look at the texts of Livonian authors that were motivated by Counter-Reformation, superstition, syncretism, spiritualism and pietism.

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